Word: annenberg
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Gnarled Philadelphia Publisher Moe Annenberg, 62, after settling for $9,500,000 civil suits for a hash of income-tax evasions, left Federal Court in Chicago, where he had pleaded guilty to one count of the same criminal charges, posed with unusual affability for what he called a "different"' picture...
...Solemn-looking, thin and hollow-eyed, one of the richest men in the U. S. admitted in a Chicago Federal court last week that he was guilty of a crime. His crime: evasion of Federal income-tax payment in 1936. The criminal: Moses L. Annenberg (publisher of the Philadelphia Inquirer, Daily Racing Form, etc., etc.). Maximum penalty: five years in jail, $10,000 fine. Without admitting Government charges (soon to be dismissed) that he or some of his companies had also evaded income taxes in 1931, '32, '33, '34, '35 and '37, Publisher Annenberg agreed...
...what interested employes most was the account that Newsmen gave of their work at home and abroad. Main exploit on the home front last year was a News investigation of Moe Annenberg that led to his indictment and the cutting off of his wire service to bookmakers (TIME...
Presumably, Chicago gamblers would have no reason to be curious about local news items in Waukegan. But last winter Publisher Moe Annenberg's Nationwide News Service was forced to cut off its racing information to bookmakers and betters (TIME, Nov. 13). A Waukegan newspaper with press wire service could act as an outpost to give Chicago bookies (by telephone) this vital information...